First Clematis of the season
Just a little blog with the first of clematis to flower this season. The white one is actually a rescue plant and this is the first flowering season. I love the large white flowers
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May 6, 2019
Uncle Tom tulips
On the way back to our hotel from Keukenhof gardens last week we stopped off at a bulb stall and I bought some Uncle Tom tulips – they are darkish red doubles (picture below). I was told to plant them when we got home and they would flower in about 6 weeks. I got round to it today and although there were supposed to be 10 there was only 9 and some were mouldy. I’ve planted them and hope they come up in June!
April 30, 2019
Keukenhof Gardens visit 2019
I have been wanting to visit these gardens and tulip fields for a number of years as I love tulips and this year I finally got there. Apparently the display is never the same twice and once the 6/7 week opening season is finished they close and dig up each of the 7 million tulips and plant new for the following season. I would not fancy this job. Sadly, it was a cold, wet and windy day with sunny intervals. All pictures are taken on the same day although it properly doesn’t look like it. I think I loved them all but particularly a section which is rainbow themed and looks at different ways of container planting without plastic which is fascinating and I like the wicker basket idea! We went on a cruise of the canal beside the tulip fields first and then onto walk around the amazing gardens. I hope you enjoy the pictures, I took lots but I think these are the best.
April 13, 2019
Quarry Bank mill visit 2019
I’ve had a lovely afternoon visiting Quarry Bank Mill today with some friends visiting the area and apart from the extortionate entrance price (I’m not a national trust member). We went in the newly refurbished Greg house, it only became empty in 2013, the mill and of course the garden and greenhouse. Here’s a few pictures of the garden. If anyone can identify the plant in the first picture please let me know. I think it’s an alpine.
April 6, 2019
April 2019 in my garden
Greetings from my sunny but still quite blowy Cheshire garden. Just a couple of things currently blossoming/ flowering in my garden. The daffodils were transplanted from a neighbours garden as she had too many so I don’t know the variety but love them. I have a few more dotted about. The second picture is a Snowy Mespilus. Lastly a fritillaria which I’d completely forgotten planting
March 29, 2019
First tulip to flower this season
It was lovely to have the time yesterday to get some gardening done and see how things are progressing. I potted on my sweet peas that I sowed in October and are now about 1 feet high, weeded, cut the lawn edges and planted out an alstroemeria from the greenhouse. I hadn’t realised it was a hardy plant so doesn’t need the greenhouse space it was taking up and if it dies I have another exactly the same staying in the greenhouse for now.
I’ll leave you with a picture of my first tulip to flower this season. I love tulips and like to try different ones each year. I grow them in pots mainly but they don’t seem to last beyond 1-2 years.
March 21, 2019
Spring in my Cheshire garden
This is my favourite time of year when everything is growing, blossoming and the evenings are lighter longer every day but it’s not hot. I am not a fan of extremes of weather, whether hot or cold!
I have sweetpea and cosmos seeds coming up in the greenhouse and more to sow.
Here is what’s currently flowering/ blossoming in my garden. Including a forsythia, camellia and magnolia.
March 19, 2019
First daffodil to flower
This is daffodil Minnow and they have appeared in the last few days
March 1, 2019
March 2019 in my garden
Greetings from a dull day in my South Manchester garden in the UK! It has actually been unseasonably warm this week and I’ve been able to go out without my coat.
Every time I go outside something new is flowering or growing, it’s an exciting time for gardeners. So here are my pictures, I apologise for the tarpaulin in the picture of the tree, the summer house roof needs fixing and I don’t yet know how to edit my pictures so that it’s not in the shot. I want to learn this!
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